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NO. !). KMTOll's TAlIIiU. 01 advertise iu our coUuiuih, wo will refer to those who recognize the Students 1111(1 tip. predate tliuir tnuio. A FfiATUliK OF LEGISLATIVE ECONOMY. The Board of Regents, nt their meeting lust summer, reduced the salaries of the Chancellor and the regular Professors. As if this were not enough, the Legislature has just made a farther reduction iu the salary of the Chancellor. The disposition to curtail even more extensively washy no means wanting. The low estimate of the importance of collegiate work, which this most commendable measure exhibits, reminds us of the prevalent tendency of district school boards to pay the teachers they employ no higher wages than those they give to their farm laborers. That the profession of school teacher is in this way very injuriously affected, is patent enough to those conversant with the fuels; then does not this praise-wor-thy freak of economy affect also the college professor? lie has spent the best years of early manhood in the toil of a collegiate course and even then must remain a stu dent, for, to discharge Ills duties faithfully, he must still do much hard work To reduce his salary to a minimum, is not only to impair his usefulness us a professor, but to induce him to turn to a more lucrative profession. HEADING AND DECLAMATIONS. As a part of rhetorical training, decla mations arc doubtless of some value; yet they ought not to displace what is of moi e practical benelit. The pompous bomhnst put into the mouths ol Greek and Koman orators, and adopted as the stock-in-trade of tho ordinary declaiinor, is not calculated to lead to the best prac tical results. If the student will some time sway multitudes by his eloquence, and the occasions for this will seldom occur, his apprenticeship must be em. ployed in a more matter-of-fact style of diction and delivery. His time would bo better spent iu perfecting the delivery of his own original productions. Heading is of quite as much value as speaking; yet how many really good readers are to be found ? How many of our public men can read an address with proper effect? To many students, there is seldom occasion for reading aloud : hence the importance of culture in this direc tion. The professor in charge of the rlietori cal exorcises of tho college classes lately proposed tho plan of in part supplanting the declamations by exercises in reading. Wo hope this change will be concurred in and supported by all the students con-corned. Do not forget to read the contributed articles this month. There is a greater number of pieces than usual, and also a greater variety in the subject matter. Read the poem in blank verse, which is an innovation in our paper. It exhibits care in its preparation. Read also ''Self Boarding." That article is truly a graphic delineation of the miseries of bachelor, hood, but we litre add, in defense of those to whom the article applies, that the general rule laid down therein is not without exceptions. But we will not dis criminate as all the pieces are well worth your perusal, whether or not you can al ways agree with the writers. EDITOR'S TABLE. Now that all the editors have passed the compliments ot the season most of them have settled down to good, substantial work; and ponderous editorials, witty lo cals, cutting criticisms and learned essays are the results of their labors. The ex change editors always receive our first at tention. Some are cordial with a kind, pleasant word for tho paper just struggling into existence; others, with a supercilious eye, seem only waiting for a chance to crush somebody ; others wrap themselves